This is an interesting observation.
One wonders about the future of monotheism in a world that is increasingly scientific, though barbaric at the same time.
Personally, I don’t think that individual horrific periods of time, e.g., the Spanish Inquisition, that are conducted under the name of Christianity, have any real bearing on its future.
So many emotions–all negative–apply to life in today’s United States.
Most people are angry, having watched a common criminal become and remain the most important figure in American politics. They know that millions of our soldiers fought and died to preserve our liberty and protect our Constitution, only to have it reduced to rubble, right before our eyes.
Sadness works too.
Anyone who thinks things have improved since the Obama days is kidding himself.
And now, we’re talking about issues that are far less supportable than they were in 2008.
Texas is suing the federal government because the state’s OBGYN doctors are forced to perform abortions if they are required to save the life of the mother.
We’re banning books.
Congress is blocking the progress that the nation could be making in climate change mitigation.
It’s mass stupidity.
Meet Mildred Lisette Norman, aka the Peace Pilgrim, an American spiritual teacher, mystic, and peace activist for 28 years during the mid-20th Century.
She walked across the United States, speaking with others about peace, and was on her seventh cross-country journey when she died.
Sure, that sounds bad, but it really depends on how one defines “quality of life.” If affluence, education, and health mean a great deal, then, yeah, there are 48 states in which you’ll fare better.
If you want to see women and non-white men lead even s***ier and more oppressed lives than yours, then you’re in heaven, my friend.
We’re a country at war with itself, in so many different ways.
As suggested here is the battle being fought between our nation’s gun nuts and its parents of school-age kids.
Parents will do anything to protect their children, but the National Rifle Association is undeterred; the NRA will do everything in its power to ensure that insane people can carry assault weapons.
So far, the NRA is way out on top. Each day 12 children die from gun violence in America. Another 32 are shot and injured.
From this article on Trump and his insurrection:
As former President Donald Trump weighs announcing a potential 2024 presidential run this fall — which would be his third run for president in as many election cycles — a constitutional law professor is calling on Democrats to act now to prevent him from doing so. (more…)
“May” is a word (used in this article) that doesn’t hold much certainty. Of course, almost nothing is certain in our world today.
But do you know what makes a Trump resurgence extremely unlikely? A long prison term, for seditious conspiracy and treason.
From this piece on the European droughts and heat waves:
Record-breaking heat has killed over 1,000 people in Western Europe over the past week, while firefighters battle to contain blazes scorching swathes of three countries amid a worsening climate emergency, officials said this weekend.
El País reports heat killed 360 people in Spain between July 10 and July 15. This follows the heat-related deaths of more than 800 people last month, according to the Spanish government’s Carlos III Health Institute. Madrid-Barajas International Airport recorded an all-time high temperature of 108°F Thursday, while some Spanish municipalities registered highs of 110°F to 113°F.
One 60-year-old Madrid sanitation worker collapsed in the middle of the street while working Friday. The man was rushed to the hospital with a body temperature of over 106°F and died of heat stroke. He was one of 123 people who suffered heat-related deaths Friday in Spain.
The heat waves of Southern Europe provide another opportunity to talk about how and why high temperatures are so deadly.
As we see from the story above, high temperatures by themselves can cause death by hyperthermia, as the victim’s body temperature reaches a point where vital functions are impaired via the breakdown of the actual cells.
Adding humidity makes all this more dangerous than the “dry heat” found in deserts. Wet bulb temperature is defined as the lowest temperature a volume of air can achieve by evaporative cooling. The human body cannot survive extended periods in wet bulb temperatures over 95° F, which occurs at 100° F and 83% humidity or 110° F and 56% humidity.
From Rolling Stone: Trump Tells Team He Needs to Be President Again to Save Himself from Criminal Probes
Obviously Trump understands this; he’s not an idiot.
But is this a valid reason to vote for a U.S. president? Our boy is on his way to a life sentence in prison for seditious conspiracy and treason if we don’t get him back where he can overthrow the federal government and skate through the judicial system.
Sounds like sketchy reasoning, but maybe that’s just me.
